Wednesday, 2 June 2010

Golden cycle stand

In 1999 a programme called "Room for the bike" began, aiming to increase the amount of cycle parking at Dutch railway stations.

The 200000th new cycle parking stand due to this programme has just been installed in Hardenberg. It's coloured gold. The 200000 are made up of 157000 unwatched stands, 30000 watched places and 13000 cycle lockers.

60000 more cycle parking spaces at railway stations will be installed by 2012, and ProRail promises to keep up a rate of building 25000 new spaces per year at least until 2020.

The result is that the entire country has an enormous ratio of bicycle parking spaces available to the population of the town in which they exist.

Some of the cycle-parking at Assen railway station, expanded under this scheme.

4 comments:

There is no system. You'll just have to remember where you've put it. Or have such a distinctive bike (strange colour and/or flowers attached etc) that it always stands out. I recently saw a stand in the HEMA shop with bike locks in all colours of the rainbow, plastic flowers, spray paint, rubber ties and all kinds of bells. Funny how spray paint and flowers are connected to the locks and bells. :)

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